“So Much” by Christopher Beard

M and I mingled behind
a movie theater in the Miracle Mile
plaza acres of future foreclosures
we skipped Splash with Tom Hanks for
cramped fingers inside her zipper tight
jeans—history is revision so sweet
sweet love with M toppling
over bucket seats in my burgundy
83’ Honda in which we repair
off to the prom Under the Sea
and I don’t struggle so with
the antique trappings of ornate
stockings and panties sequestered
beneath so much chiffon